Abortion Pill Maker Asks Supreme Court to Allow Mail-Order Deliveries

Mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen commonly called ’the abortion pill,' is used to end a pregnancy up to 70 days into gestation.

Packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic in Rockville, Md., on April 13, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

The makers of mifepristone, which is part of a two-drug regimen often called “the abortion pill,” asked the Supreme Court on May 2 to allow the prescription medication to be sent in the mail after a lower court blocked it.

The application for an emergency stay was filed one day after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit paused a Food and Drug Administration rule that allowed the abortion drug to be mailed.